Scotchwoman
Americannoun
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Scotchwomen
plural
noun
Commonly Confused
See Scotch.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Scotchwoman
1810–20; Scotch(man) ( def. ) + -woman
Example Sentences
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After graduating from Vassar in 1947, Quigley returned to San Francisco where the very same astrologer, an elderly Scotchwoman, took her under her wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Mitchell, of Carolside, was a Scotchwoman of an Aberdeen family.
From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
That she is a Scotchwoman she states, but I have not remarked that she is intimate with her countryman, M. de Maxwell, of whose loyalty no one has any doubt.'
From The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec by Jean Newton McIlwraith
The greatest of these, beyond all question, was Charles Forbes de Montalembert, whose mother was a Scotchwoman, and his father French ambassador in Sweden.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Of her biography we know no more than that, a Scotchwoman by birth, she married a French diplomatist, who, in 1860, was serving the State as French ambassador to the Court of Pekin.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
I have often admired Scotchwomen of a pronounced Celtic type.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
His sisters, who, taking after their mother, were all true Scotchwomen, now urged upon him to comply with Archie's request and accompany him to Lanark.
From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
It's away from the railway; it's away from the high-road: it's kept by a decent, respectable Scotchwoman—" "Decent, respectable Scotchwomen who keep inns," interposed Geoffrey, "don't cotton to young ladies who are traveling alone.
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
Thus, in detailing the scene with Mrs. R——, I was instinctively led to picture a group of Scotchwomen, sitting socially together and listening to a similar story.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The careful consonants and musical cadences of the Scotchwomen were such a balm to the ear!
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
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